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CONTINENTAL

on land (includes lakes and streams)


Common Common
Environment
Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary Common Fossils
Name
Types Structures
high energy,
conglomerate, cross-beds,ripple oxidizing
stream - channel
sandstone marks environment with
few fossils
terrestrial plants
stream - floodplain shale mud cracks
and animals
high energy,
conglomerate, poorly sorted, cross- oxidizing
alluvial fan
arkose beds environment with
few fossils
desert dune well sorted, large terrestrial reptile
sandstone
(aeolian) scale cross-beds traces
angular to rounded
high energy
grains, poorly sorted,
glacier - till tillite environment with
unstratified
few fossils
(massive)
high energy,
ripple marks, cross-
sandstone, oxidizing
glacier - outwash beds, similar to
conglomerate environment with
stream channel
few fossils
cross-beds, ripple
swamp coal plant fossils
marks, mud cracks
conglomerate, graded beds, thin
lake dwelling
lake sandstone, shale, beds, varves, ripple
organisms
freshwater limestone marks, mud cracks
TRANSITIONAL
where land meets ocean
Common Common
Environment
Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary Common Fossils
Name
Types Structures
marine and
terrestrial plants,
nonmarine possible cross-beds,
delta mollusk shells,
mudstone, siltstone, ripple marks
bioturbation
sandstone, coal
fine to medium-
mollusk shells,
beach sandstone grained, well-sorted,
bioturbation
cross-beds
mudstone, siltstone, fine-grained, ripple
mollusk shells,
tidal flat sandstone, possible marks, cross-beds,
bioturbation
evaporites mud cracks
MARINE
in the ocean
Environment Common Common Common Fossils
Name Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary
Types Structures
fish, coral, mollusk
limestone, shale, cross-beds, ripple
shelf/platform shells, sponges,
sandstone marks
echinoderms
reef limestone massive coral
mudstone, graded beds, microscopic
slope/rise
graywacke turbidites plankton
chert, chalk, microscopic
deep marine thin beds
limestone, mudstone plankton
shallow restricted extreme chemical
gypsum, anhydrite, mud cracks, thin
circulation in arid environment with
halite beds, salt casts
hot climate few fossils

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